George Belknap

“ It kept that form for perhaps two minutes, when it began to lengthen upwards, and grow wavy and zigzag in outline from the action of the wind, and gradually diminishing in breadth, until it became a fine, faint spiral line, at its upper end dissolving into the fast-gathering clouds the meteor seemed to have evoked. ”

“ Fig. 3. - At 5.00 P.M. ⁠The sun had set clear, leaving the lower sky streaked with gorgeous tints of green and red, while the new moon, three days old, gave out a peculiar red light of singular brilliancy. Suddenly, at three minutes before five o'clock, a loud rushing noise was heard, like that of a large rocket descending from the zenith with immense force and velocity. ”